This December, the Android Security Bulletin was seen publishing a report by Google, which carried out details of a number of vulnerabilities that were found in the Android operating system. In total, there are three key vulnerabilities that have been found with critical rating. But Google only highlights one of these being the most severe ones for the reasons, these are single most malicious one causing to a permanent denial of service. If you tend to hang fire when the software update is available with the notification lands over the Android devices which you would want to hit the button of Yes with a bit quicker on this eve. The fact of teh matter is it highly recommended installing the December security update just came when it was made available to you. Ironically not all Android devices are seen receiving these security updates and these do not often get them as quickly as possible.
Android security threats
It is not if truth to be told and it come along the the greatest within few weeks for Android users that comes to security. First of all the vulnerability could be seen allowing the attacker to seen taking controlling the Google and the Camera apps that are remotely snap photos along with the record audio. The jaw dropping threat is seen having the potential to put an impact over number of Android based users. Then in the dropping threat that came the potential to put an impact over millions of Android users. Soon the other update came that suggested the update pertaining to the new text messaging method relying Rich Communication Services to help in getting exposed to the users to the hacking risks along with “StrandHogg” vulnerability, which would allow the hackers access all your photos and text messages thus get the chance to steal your credentials. Then came the news in the Android Security Bulletin stating that a critical vulnerability do exist, which could remotely execute a “permanent” denial of service attack over your Android device with the help of us some specially-crafted message.
The CVE-2019-2232 permanent denial of service Android vulnerability
The CVE-2019-2232 is known to be rated as one of the severe critical vulnerabilities found in the three found that are going to be addressed in the December the first claimed the Android Security Bulletin. As per the official NIST National Vulnerability Database description, the improper input validation found in the “handleRun of TextLine.java” could help in creating a “possible application crash.” In a nutshell, with a maliciously-crafted message one would end up causing a denial of service to your Android device. With a permanent denial of service attack, which could effectively kibosh your smartphone. The user interaction is not required for exploitation as it continues, one can find rgw remote denial of service attack requirements “no additional execution privileges,” for good measure. These vulnerabilities are more applicable to the Android Versions 8.0, Android 8.1, Android 9 and Android 10 versions respectively. Now, the big question, how does one can mitigate this critical Android security threat? Well, the good news is that it can help in fixing the CVE-2019-2232 and the the other security vulnerabilities that remain disclosed in the month of December 2019 Android Security Bulletin that are known to have already been released to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) repository.